Prosecutors Open ‘Sausage King’ Case
Prosecutors opened their case Monday against self-proclaimed “Sausage King” Stuart Alexander by outlining the months the sausage factory owner allegedly spent flouting the law and threatening government health inspectors before he shot and killed three of them.
Alexander, 43, faces three counts of murder in the June 2000 deaths of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors Thomas Quadros, 52, and Jeannie Hillery, 56, and California state inspector Bill Shaline, 57, at his Santos Linguisa Factory in San Leandro.
A fourth inspector survived and is expected to testify at Alexander’s trial
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